Derive third rhythmic pattern from two existing patterns

An AND circuit will only go high if all its inputs are high.

If you combine two rhythmic patterns in an AND circuit, you can derive a third accent rhythm from where the two rhythms overlap. This technique works particularly well with inputs such as Euclidean sequences and clocks that have a 50% duty cycles, and less well with just triggers as inputs (because the high signals of each input must overlap from time to time in order to derive a new rhythm).

Example:

• patch one Euclidean gate sequence to an input of an AND circuit (or VCA)
• patch another Euclidean gate sequence to the other input
• patch the output of the AND circuit to trigger a percussion module or envelope

Video example (begins at 9:54):

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